The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have.

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these great generational upheavals that's coming.

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.